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About Olaf Groth
How do leaders know where to focus their attention as paradigm-shifting technologies like China's DeepSeek explode onto the scene? Futurist and technology strategist Olaf Groth, Ph.D., shows executives how emerging technologies will reshape worldwide economies and businesses, and how to identify where the power shifts lie before they arrive.
Groth has advised governments including those of the US, Germany, Malaysia, the UAE and Kosovo, and multinationals including VW, Siemens, Chevron, GE, Vodafone and Ferrari. His firms' patents, GeoTech capabilities, and digital governance and data market frameworks probe what lies beyond the horizon for businesses in the age of AI. His work has taken him across more than 35 countries in North America, Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Asia.
Olaf's Keynote Topics
AI is being integrated into seemingly everything – robotics, healthcare, mobility, finance, cybersecurity and privacy, and national security. Governments and large corporations are using cognitive technology to assert better control over external forces, which is yielding extraordinary power for those who design, own and capitalize on such technologies, says Olaf Groth, Ph.D., member of the Global Alliance for AI Governance (AIGA) at the World Economic Forum and frequent moderator at its Annual Meeting of the New in China. In this talk, Groth illuminates the convergence of emerging tech – like combining AI and data with quantum technology, or fusing AI with climate and energy technologies – to help leaders identify opportunities and begin to design a viable pathway for the future.
Globalization 2.0 is the new operating system for the cognitive economy, a category that encompasses AI, brain-computer interfaces and quantum computing. As Olaf Groth, Ph.D., explains in his book “The Great Remobilization,” this next era of globalization is being driven by the six C’s of emerging risks. In this talk, Groth lays out the tectonic forces business leaders need to integrate into their business strategy – COVID and CRISPR; Cognitive technology; Crypto, which includes blockchain and Web 3.0; Cybersecurity; Climate change; and China – in order to establish the path an organization will choose to take in defining their future. With the potential for compounding effects – adding risks together leading to 2nd and 3rd order effects – Groth’s analysis of the shifts in the Cognitive Era, how political forces work on emerging technologies and vice versa, and his guidance for integrating the six C’s is critical for successfully developing and implementing industry-specific strategies that turn risk into opportunity and usher organizations into the future.
It is now commonplace for technology to be at the center of geopolitics, what Olaf Groth, Ph.D., calls GeoTech. “Many companies that never considered geopolitics a core concern will find it inescapable now,” he says. In this illuminating talk, Groth gives leaders the right questions to ask about the intersection between tech and geopolitics and the implications for national security, solving big global problems like climate change migration, health, collaborating with China and more. His well-defined tools, like the FLP-IT framework, help leaders understand business forces in a specific domain, and then identify how it will change how they react today. With an apolitical perspective, he highlights where the structural changes are and what needs to happen for us to solve global problems. Individuals and organizations will be equipped to make better sense of the current environment to begin turning identified threats and opportunities into a lasting strategy for future growth.
Olaf in the Media
AI Could Make Kazakhstan Regional Orchestrator, Says AI Strategist Olaf Groth
Kazakhstan Seeks Digital Leverage in AI Race
Designing the Tech Future: Part 1 with Olaf J. Groth on Innovation, Power, and Global Governance
Designing the Tech Future: Part 2 with Olaf J. Groth on Innovation, Power, and Global Governance
Why AI Needs Smart Investment Pathways to Ensure a Sustainable Impact
Olaf Groth Explores California’s High-Stakes Dance Amid Trade and Tech Turmoil
EDC Gathering Adds a Global View to Local Economy
Olaf Groth - Techno-Confucianism: Is a New Cold War Happening?
UTM Hosts Roundtable on Catalyzing AI Development in Malaysia with Professor Olaf J. Groth
Tech at the Centre of Geopolitics: 5 New Strategic Capabilities for Geotech Organizations
Olaf J Groth, PhD, Founder & CEO - Cambrian Futures & Cambrian Designs
Small but Mighty: How SMEs Can Thrive in the Cognitive Economy
The Great Remobilization' takes on all of the massive forces upending our world today—from COVID to climate change and geopolitical tensions—and presents an easy-to-grasp framework for analyzing those forces and identifying global solutions.
Ann HarrisonBank of America Dean, Berkeley Haas School of Business
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